What it’s like to be parented by a poet

Posted by emily bobo on

I.

The child asks, “Is this the end, the end of everything?”

The poet answers, “If it is, then I am so grateful to have known you.”

And the child, knowing, answers, “You’re not supposed to say that. Don’t say that.”

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